Smatters vs Spatters - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between smatters and spatters

is that smatters is (smatter) while spatters is (spatter).

(head)

(smatter)

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(en verb)

To talk superficially; to babble.

* Jonathan Swift

Of state affairs you cannot smatter .

To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.

to smatter Arabic

(figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.

To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

* smatterer * smattering

(en noun)

superficial knowledge; a smattering

(head)

(spatter)

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(en verb)

To splash with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

(Alexander Pope)

(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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